Anticipation!

[VAB2013]

Cool... They both from Watertown Wis???

We're getting a good dose of anticipation! Maybe it has something to do with the honey do list??

[makecents]

Cmon John, you're killin us!!

[stoneman227]

Sorry all, working on the honey do and every darned thing else it seems !
No biggies though a number of nice abraded clashes this being the one I would have liked to have seen the most before the die was worked on .

John
1966 clash.jpg

[stoneman227]

Cool... They both from Watertown Wis???

Yup , both the same wrapper and many of the same dies in both rolls.

John

[makecents]

Sorry all, working on the honey do and every darned thing else it seems !
No biggies though a number of nice abraded clashes this being the one I would have liked to have seen the most before the die was worked on .

John
1966 clash.jpg

That must have been a very impressive clash, the mint workers done a job on it and it's still showing through!! Very nice pics and coin John!!

[VAB2013]

Really nice die clash John, looks like it was so deep in the die that the mint workers gave up trying to polish it out!! Sorry you didn't find a big one in those rolls, but it must have been cool to see so many nice 1966's!

[jfines69]

Cool... Thanks for the follow up... That is an awesome clash... There is only 1 typical clash listed on the MAD site for 66 and no atypical http://www.maddieclashes.com/tdc-1c-1966-01/ Yours looks to be rotated slightly... If the mint had tried to remove the deepest clash marks the die would have been scrapped... What is that east of Abes lower lip???

[silver1985]

GrumpyEd: Seems like the shortages were gone a few years later and they started putting mintmarks back on in 68 (including S mint cents 68 through 74), maybe nobody was hoarding a bunch of clads and memorial cents by then LOL.

This may be the explanation for the appearance of ten rolls of uncirculated 1968-S LMCs that were put in a vault in March 1968, and never opened until last year.
Almost all of the 500 cents look like they were tumbled in a concrete mixer for a day or two, ....probably so they would not be taken out of circulation and hoarded by collecters.

[stoneman227]

This may be the explanation for the appearance of ten rolls of uncirculated 1968-S LMCs that were put in a vault in March 1968, and never opened until last year.
Almost all of the 500 cents look like they were tumbled in a concrete mixer for a day or two, ....probably so they would not be taken out of circulation and hoarded by collecters.

Interesting . I can believe that if they were in a mint sewn bag all these years but not rolls. I picked up a bank bag of 100 OBW 1968-D rolls some time back and of the rolls I have looked at they are Beautiful!

John

[silver1985]

My thought is that since the San Francisco mint was going to produce the fewest quantity of the Lincoln Memorial series ever produced (??), that they would be released with intentional undesirable appearance for collectors. Any thoughts on this?